Golden Celebrity

· Weekend Update commentator Roger A. Trivanti offered some compelling rhetoric on behalf of his fellow producers, but none quite crystallized the dispute so much as his closing wishes that “all you writers get ass cancer and die.”
· This seems fitting for the first day of the strike: Remember the Saddest Bear in [...]

Perhaps you’ve taken notice of the Beowulf marketing siege currently coating area mini-storages and billboards, its cast of synthetic stars only slightly less off-putting than the dead-eyed, Christmas-train-riding childrenoids that populated Robert Zemeckis’s last effort. The FXRant blog notes a number of striking similarities between its campaign and that of another CGI-heavy fantasy epic [...]

As noted by a number of commenters on today’s previous ChantWatch posts on the reportedly lackluster performance of WGA strikers at Paramount and CBS Television City, the act of shouting slogans at passing cars to elicit honks of approval is inherently silly, and one that runs counter to many writers’ introverted, self-conscious natures. Still, we [...]

While Jay Leno’s gift of Krispy Kremes (and his accompanying public declaration that “without them I’m not funny. I’m a dead man without them.”) to the writers striking outside NBC’s headquarters this morning probably seemed a warm expression of solidarity at the time, the bar for talk-show host generosity was quickly set a little bit [...]

With the writers’ strike finally upon us, a nation of panicky couch potatoes nervously scanning their TV Guides in search of whatever available, non-scripted programming might prevent them from succumbing to an organ-seizing bout of TV withdrawal, we bring you a small measure of hope: According to the NY Times, Rosie O’Donnell is in talks [...]